BOGOTA, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Rescue efforts across western Colombia carried into a second day on Tuesday as emergency workers dug through collapsed buildings and flattened homes, amid expectations that the death toll from the country’s most powerful earthquake in decades could rise. The 7.4-magnitude
(Corrects dateline to Aug 11) By Lucy Craymer SUVA, Fiji, Aug 11 (Reuters) – China’s test of a nuclear-capable missile last month has exposed the limits of Pacific leaders’ ambition to make the region an “Ocean of Peace”, free from the crossfire of major-power rivalry. The July launch, China’s first
LONDON (AP) — Nigel Farage depicts himself as an outsider taking on the establishment, but now the tables have turned. The leader of anti-immigration party Reform UK is running in an election as the incumbent favorite, and his main opponent is a man dressed as a garbage can. Farage, an ally of U.S.
(Corrects paragraph 12 to clarify that Malaysia’s Sarawak borders Indonesia on Borneo island) JAKARTA, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Indonesia has stepped up efforts to contain forest and land fires across six priority provinces, deploying cloud-seeding aircraft to induce rain as authorities seek to slow the h
By Mohi Narayan NEW DELHI, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell to six on Monday, compared with a 10-day average of about 11 vessels, shipping data showed, amid fading hopes of a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran. Four commodity vessels, including two empty oil pr
MOSCOW, Aug 11 (Reuters) – A drone attack killed one person and injured two others in Russia’s Voronezh region overnight, while falling debris triggered fires at a Wildberries warehouse, Alexander Gusev, the regional governor, and the company said on Tuesday. Russia’s air defence units destroyed 15
XIANGYANG, China, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Typhoon Dolphin churned deeper inland to the central Chinese province of Hubei on Tuesday, prompting the closure of tourist areas and suspension of construction projects, as forecasters warned of the danger of extreme rainfall in the province’s mountainous northw
BEIJING, Aug 11 (Reuters) – The densely populated Chinese capital of Beijing braced for the expected onset of more than one-third of its annual rainfall over 24 hours starting late on Tuesday as moisture from Typhoon Dolphin to the south converged with cool air over northern China. • From Tuesday ev
HANOI, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Vietnam has begun construction on what it describes as the country’s largest and most advanced domestically made anti-submarine frigate, a military-owned newspaper reported. The vessel, being built at the defence ministry’s Song Thu Shipyard in Danang City, will also have m
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australians for the first time can reveal their sexual orientation and whether they identify as a different gender than the one recorded at birth — contentious debut questions in the latest census that occurs every five years. The 66-question census, held on Tuesday, Aug.
By Alasdair Pal and Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Tuesday he had called an urgent in-person meeting of National Party lawmakers for Wednesday, amid calls from some quarters for a leadership change less than three months before an ele
SYDNEY, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Australia and Vietnam said on Tuesday they had agreed to deepen the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two nations. Both countries expressed concern over restrictive trade practices that disrupt global supply chains, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
(Corrects to clarify he deplaned in Britain in paragraph 10) WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight from Turkey last month when the White House said he was flying aboard Air Force One, an extraordinary move prompted by an Iranian assassination
LOS ANGELES, Aug 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. government has sold for scrap two sanctioned oil tankers that were seized in the days after Washington’s raid on Venezuela, Lloyd’s List reported on Monday. Dubai-headquartered vessel recycling firm Global Marketing Systems purchased the tankers last month fo
Aug 11 (Reuters) – Russian attacks killed five people and injured 20 in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia early on Tuesday and also struck Kyiv, triggering fires in the capital, officials said. Zaporizhzhia Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said Russian troops deployed missiles and aerial
SEOUL, Aug 11 (Reuters) – In a commentary carried by KCNA titled “Japan’s defense white paper is a reinvasion-minded one for the legalization of the operation of war machine,” a North Korean analyst said Japan’s 2026 White Paper “groundlessly described” North Korea as the greatest strategic challeng
BENGHAZI, Aug 11 (Reuters) – The head of military intelligence for eastern Libya’s Libyan National Army was killed on Monday when an explosive device detonated in his car outside his home in the Hawari area of Benghazi, two security sources told Reuters. Brigadier Fowzi Mansouri was killed in the ev
By Pavel Polityuk Alexander Tanas KYIV/CHISINAU, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Ukraine is considering shipping grain by rail through Moldova as a more secure export option than by sea and has asked authorities in Chisinau for a low freight tariff, sources in both countries said on Monday. Exports from Ukrainia
KYIV, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he discussed a drone deal and food security with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday. “There are domains in which Ukraine and Saudi Arabia can strengthen each other’s ability to protect lives and people,” he said on X
TRIPOLI, Aug 10 (Reuters) – A fire, accompanied by heavy smoke, broke out on Monday in diesel tank oil depot at Libya’s Zawiya refinery after the tank was struck under circumstances whose cause remains unknown, Brega Petroleum Marketing Company said in a statement. Brega is owned by state oil firm N
ANKARA, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Turkey’s parliament passed a law on Monday establishing a legal framework for the disbandment of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a major step toward ending a decades-old conflict that has killed tens of thousands. The legislation provides legal protections for
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, Aug 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, but said the Justice Department’s decision to abandon the fraud and bribery case was concerning. Brooklyn-based U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis’ decision to gran
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s highest court on Monday ordered the only party opposing the Kremlin’s military action in Ukraine to be removed from the ballot in next month’s parliamentary election. The Supreme Court annulled the registration of Yabloko — which is Russian for “apple” — after an appeal from a
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan is still operative and discussions with Israel are continuing, a Board of Peace official said on Monday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an Israeli withdrawal until the Palestinian militant group
LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Russia’s Supreme Court on Monday barred the liberal Yabloko party from contesting September’s parliamentary elections, sidelining the only officially registered party that opposes Moscow’s war in Ukraine. More than four years after Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukr
Syrian Security Forces Announce Dismantling of ISIS Cell Near Israeli Border Rizik Alabi / The Media Line [DAMASCUS] Syrian security authorities announced Sunday that they had dismantled a nine-member cell affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) in the city of Khan Arnabah in southern Syria’s Qunei
Aug 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Monday it has revoked more than 175,000 visas from foreign nationals under President Donald Trump’s administration, as it continues a sweeping immigration crackdown that has stripped travel and immigration privileges from tens of thousands more pe
VIENNA, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Austria has broken up a scheme in which a Vienna-based company supplied equipment used to make engines for Russian missiles and fighter jets, in breach of European Union sanctions, the interior ministry said on Monday. The company falsified end-user certificates to supply
STOCKHOLM, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Sweden’s security service said on Monday it had shut down a Russian spying operation that had tried to influence decision-making there and discredit the Nordic country as well as its EU and NATO allies. The operation had been planned and directed by Russia’s SVR foreign
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record started in February, months before it was officially declared in mid-May, the World Health Organization said Monday as responders in eastern Congo struggle to catch up. The WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Mohamed Yakub Janabi, to
